Failure in the nonoperative management of pediatric ruptured appendicitis: predictors and consequences

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 934-938

  Aprahamian, Charles J ^a   Barnhart, Douglas C ^a   Bledsoe, Samuel E ^a   Vaid, Yoginder ^b   Harmon, Carroll M ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; CT findings; Nonoperative management; Perforated appendicitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABSCESS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CALCULI; CECAL DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34249798220     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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